<p>By all means make sure they know about your swimming. Fortunately, that sport is easy to evaluate, just have your coach report your times. They may also be interested in predictions, since you will probably grown during high school.</p>
<p>Please do not fixate on just A and E. There are a number of other schools that offer comparable superb educations- I hesitate to name them for fear of starting a flame by leaving one out, but an incomplete list of such places would include St. Paul's, Groton, Milton, Deerfield, and Choate. If you are determined to apply to a "name" school, then these 7 would give you a much better shot of admission that applying to just two. </p>
<p>There are also at least several dozen other boarding schools that are much less competitive for admission, but if the fit is right, can offer you as good a high school education as you can get.</p>
<p>i bumped my thread until someone answered, and then i was done bumping. however, your questions have been answered, so you have no need to bump it anymore.</p>
<p>Like I said before, if I have to leave my family, I want the best education I can get. I'm not only applying to Andover and Exeter, but also SPS, Deerfield, and probably Choate.</p>
<p>All of your schools are equally hard to get into. Your approach, was mine as well. If I didn't get into on of the very top schools, I would have stayed home. But knowing what I know now, I would have considered a few more schools. I think Peddie is phenemonal. Others like NMH, St. Andrews and Germaantown are special. What I realize now is there are so may advantages to a boarding school education overall, that goiing to an excellent if not very top school would still be worth it. Have you done a tour? I think once you see the amazing facilities--science buildings, college-like libraries, architecture studios, and pretty much everything else you'd find at a good college, it's hard to turn back.</p>
<p>I would second Suze. It isn't just that the education is better at the top boarding schools, it is qualitatively different. If it fits you, there are lots of places that are less famous that will also give you a top boarding school education. So I am saying to take a close look at the boarding school experience, and if it is right, do not assume that you can only get the most out of it by going to a handful of places.</p>
<p>icantspellmyname, I stand by my "all or nothing" philosophy. It will be hard to leave my family and not see them for months. You may hate your parents and want to get away from them, but I don't. </p>
<p>The thing is, I can go to Upper Canada College in Toronto as a day student and live with my dad. UCC has amazing facilities as well.</p>
<p>I'm not a mama's boy. Trust me. We get in more fights than you know. It's my grandma mainly, but she's in Canada and I only see her on breaks. You don't know anything, so go away. I hope you don't go to Exeter or whatever school you want to go to. But I don't have to hope for that, it's already gonna happen.</p>
<p>its funny cuz you think ur special but your really not, and exeter doesnt accept mamas boys. :p :p :p :p</p>
<p>but lets get back on topic so the mods dont delete this thread. that 1st chair alto sax is fluff if its in ur school band. everyone knows that middle school music programs really stink.</p>
<p>" middle school music programs really stink."</p>
<p>Yup... that's why we play nearly the same music as the high school band. Both the middle school and high school bands got first in the state. Stop trying to take over my thread and go away.</p>